In about 1985, towards the end of my time at primary school, there was a craze among some of my classmates for two ways of playing with words.
One of them was where you take a word and say a rhyme about that word, of the form "Rabbit-bom-babbit, stickle-abbit, five fabbit, five fabbit, stickle-abbit, that's how you spell rabbit". (If the word begins with a vowel, you stick a B or an F on the beginning of it.)
The other was a language called PK, formed by inserting the letters VG into every syllable. For example what became wovgot, and rabbit became ravgabivgit. This meant that kids could hold a conversation without adults being able to understand!
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else remembers either of these crazes!
One of them was where you take a word and say a rhyme about that word, of the form "Rabbit-bom-babbit, stickle-abbit, five fabbit, five fabbit, stickle-abbit, that's how you spell rabbit". (If the word begins with a vowel, you stick a B or an F on the beginning of it.)
The other was a language called PK, formed by inserting the letters VG into every syllable. For example what became wovgot, and rabbit became ravgabivgit. This meant that kids could hold a conversation without adults being able to understand!
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else remembers either of these crazes!
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